Snakes On A Plane (2006)

Snakes On A Plane (2006)

3/10

 

Starring

Samuel L. Jackson

Julianna Margulies

Nathan Philips

Bobby Cannavale

 

Directed by David R. Elis

 

I have never seen this movie before, and as a first-time viewer, I am disappointed by the graphics, even though it was 2006. The movie’s plot is not something I expect anyone to take seriously. It's B-movie class writing, and how anyone thinks this is possible is beyond my reasoning. You can watch this movie and have fun jotting down all the things it got wrong about life, airport rules, and animals. The movie does not attempt to be anything more than a B-movie. Over the years, I’ve seen Samuel L. Jackson defend his work on this movie, and after seeing it, I do not understand what the hell he is defending. This was a bad film.

The movie's director must have some sort of perverted mind. We got a snake biting a woman on the nipple, another biting a man on his junk. Then there was a situation where a woman was being pleasured by a snake while she was asleep, with the snake moving about her crotch area.

The claustrophobic effect of all this happening on a plane is felt, which I do give the cinematography props for.

How are there snakes on a plane? Here’s what led to that: The bad guy, Kim, in this movie is a mafia boss. He is a known killer who has killed anyone who wants to testify against him. Now, a man (Sean) witnessed the murder of a prosecutor by Kim himself, and the police must escort him to be a witness in L.A. They are traveling from Hawaii to L.A. on a passenger flight, with Sean being guarded by two officers, one of whom is Agent Flynn (Samuel L. Jackson) of the FBI.

From here is where the writers went loco. They thought through some things. Because Kim puts a timer-release crate full of venomous snakes in the plane’s cargo hold, believing that when they get released, they will attack everything and cause the plane to crash. To ensure the snakes become aggressive when released, he had one of his henchmen spray all the passengers coming aboard the plane with some form of pheromone that makes the snakes highly aggressive.

Now, they thought through all that but failed to think through many other things. One major thing they failed to think through is the idea of snakes on a plane. The idea that they will beat airport security and happen to be supervised by a complacent officer. The idea that the snakes will move from the cargo hold to the top, where the passengers are.

The movie was not a hit financially, and I thank God for that because knowing Hollywood, if this movie had been a hit, they would have made a part two. Who knows what they would put on a plane next?